Intel Smart Response Technology (Z68 Chipset)

Been running SRT since July 2011 on a Gigabyte board with 2500k. I use a separate 128gb SSD for the OS and a 64gb SSD as a cache paired with a 2tb 5900 RPM HDD for games (a lot of them) and music/movies. I do have a symlink set up so my entire Users folder is on the HDD by default, and is completely transparent to myself and Windows. Anything that is not a game gets installed on the standalone SSD, which has a little over 80gb free at present.

I have had no problems with this setup since I put it together almost a year ago.

Been running SRT since July 2011 on a Gigabyte board with 2500k. I use a separate 128gb SSD for the OS and a 64gb SSD as a cache paired with a 2tb 5900 RPM HDD for games (a lot of them) and music/movies. I do have a symlink set up so my entire Users folder is on the HDD by default, and is completely transparent to myself and Windows. Anything that is not a game gets installed on the standalone SSD, which has a little over 80gb free at present.

I have had no problems with this setup since I put it together almost a year ago.

Been running SRT since July 2011 on a Gigabyte board with 2500k. I use a separate 128gb SSD for the OS and a 64gb SSD as a cache paired with a 2tb 5900 RPM HDD for games (a lot of them) and music/movies. I do have a symlink set up so my entire Users folder is on the HDD by default, and is completely transparent to myself and Windows. Anything that is not a game gets installed on the standalone SSD, which has a little over 80gb free at present.

I have had no problems with this setup since I put it together almost a year ago.

Been running SRT since July 2011 on a Gigabyte board with 2500k. I use a separate 128gb SSD for the OS and a 64gb SSD as a cache paired with a 2tb 5900 RPM HDD for games (a lot of them) and music/movies. I do have a symlink set up so my entire Users folder is on the HDD by default, and is completely transparent to myself and Windows. Anything that is not a game gets installed on the standalone SSD, which has a little over 80gb free at present.

I have had no problems with this setup since I put it together almost a year ago.

Been running SRT since July 2011 on a Gigabyte board with 2500k. I use a separate 128gb SSD for the OS and a 64gb SSD as a cache paired with a 2tb 5900 RPM HDD for games (a lot of them) and music/movies. I do have a symlink set up so my entire Users folder is on the HDD by default, and is completely transparent to myself and Windows. Anything that is not a game gets installed on the standalone SSD, which has a little over 80gb free at present.

I have had no problems with this setup since I put it together almost a year ago.

Been running SRT since July 2011 on a Gigabyte board with 2500k. I use a separate 128gb SSD for the OS and a 64gb SSD as a cache paired with a 2tb 5900 RPM HDD for games (a lot of them) and music/movies. I do have a symlink set up so my entire Users folder is on the HDD by default, and is completely transparent to myself and Windows. Anything that is not a game gets installed on the standalone SSD, which has a little over 80gb free at present.

I have had no problems with this setup since I put it together almost a year ago.

So can I use a an SSD to cache my secondary drive with SRT? That is to say, not the drive on which I have my OS and apps?

I have a 120GB SSD with Windows right now, and a 2TB WD storage drive. I just realized that I have a 30GB Vertex lying around that I barely used; if I throw that in there and turn it on can that be the cache for my drive? I've got a P8Z77-V, for what it's worth.

It looks like the Intel SRT software will let you accelerate any drive. Give it a try.

Has anyone tried using that registry mod with Windows 8? When I change the BIOS from AHCI to RAID I get blue screens now even after changing that. I know RST or whatever works in 8 cause I was using it till I borked the install and had to do a clean install. But I thought I could set that after I finished the Intel setup and it appears I can't.

Has anyone tried using that registry mod with Windows 8? When I change the BIOS from AHCI to RAID I get blue screens now even after changing that. I know RST or whatever works in 8 cause I was using it till I borked the install and had to do a clean install. But I thought I could set that after I finished the Intel setup and it appears I can't.

I have not myself. And as you said, I as well am running SRT just fine on my most recent Win8 box as well.

Luckily I caught myself, about 30% of the way into the Win8 install, killed the machine and changed it to RAID before continuing/reinstalling win8

I've seen a lot of Registry differences between Win8 and 7, so likely the keys are different and are in different locations, sadly.

Has anyone tried using that registry mod with Windows 8? When I change the BIOS from AHCI to RAID I get blue screens now even after changing that. I know RST or whatever works in 8 cause I was using it till I borked the install and had to do a clean install. But I thought I could set that after I finished the Intel setup and it appears I can't.

I have not myself. And as you said, I as well am running SRT just fine on my most recent Win8 box as well.

Luckily I caught myself, about 30% of the way into the Win8 install, killed the machine and changed it to RAID before continuing/reinstalling win8

I've seen a lot of Registry differences between Win8 and 7, so likely the keys are different and are in different locations, sadly.

That's about what I'm expecting as the obvious ones that fix it in 7 are correct but still no dice. I didn't even realize I'd forgotten to set it till I installed the software.

I now have SRT setup on two Z68 ASRock boards. Both have a 60GB SSD as the accelerator drive and both have a 1TB WD Black being accelerated.Both systems work without a hitch all of the time, and do not (so far) have hiccups and lose their settings.It's painless once it's setup.

I had some dancing to do with the first one, but the second one was fast and easy since I had done it once already. SRT does speed a system up, but it's not as fast as putting the system on an SSD drive

I now have SRT setup on two Z68 ASRock boards. Both have a 60GB SSD as the accelerator drive and both have a 1TB WD Black being accelerated.Both systems work without a hitch all of the time, and do not (so far) have hiccups and lose their settings.It's painless once it's setup.

I had some dancing to do with the first one, but the second one was fast and easy since I had done it once already. SRT does speed a system up, but it's not as fast as putting the system on an SSD drive

And you did this in windows 8 from a clean install using AHCI and then moving to RAID? In case you missed it I had this running flawlessly for over a year in windows 7 and it worked with a windows 8 upgrade.